Reference, Deixis and Perspective.Aspectual Readings of Italian Ecco- and French Voilà-Constructions
This paper provides an analysis of the aspectual properties of deictic-presentative constructions headed by It. ecco and Fr. voici/voilà. It will be shown that even though deictic pointing elements do not constitute verbs, they exhibit verb-like characteristics in some regards. As is the case with c...
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Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2022-11-01
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Series: | CogniTextes |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/2233 |